VIDEO: ALLEGIANCE Creative Team Featured in New Web Series 'Trek to Broadway'

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Posted by George Takei on Sunday, August 16, 2015

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga and Telly Leung will co-star with George Takei in ALLEGIANCE, a new American musical, set to open on Broadway next season at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). Previews are set to begin on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 with opening night set for Sunday, November 8, 2015.

Television and film star Takei will star in the new musical which had its world premiere in a record-breaking engagement at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Allegiance has a book by Marc Acito with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo. Helming the production is Olivier Award nominee Stafford Arima (London's Ragtime, Off-Broadway's Bare, Carrie, Altar Boyz).

In a new clip shared on George Takei's Facebook page from the web series TREK TO BROADWAY, which follows the creative team's adventures to the Great White Way, the actor and the show's producers search for a female star to join the cast. Check it out below!

ALLEGIANCE is inspired by Takei's true childhood experiences. Traversing the lush California heartland, the windswept prairies of Wyoming and the battlefields of war-torn Europe, Allegiance tells the epic multi-generational tale of deep family loyalty, romance, humor, optimism and unparalleled heroism in the face of fear and prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II and beyond.

George Takei, the original and beloved Mr. Sulu from "Star Trek", is a film and television star, as well as activist and social media icon.